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Claudio Di Celma

Claudio Di Celma

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34
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2789
World Ranking
8158
National Ranking
312

Overview

Claudio Di Celma is affiliated with the University of Camerino in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular focus on subfields such as Paleontology, Geophysics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientist's work is concentrated on several main topics including Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Marine Animal Studies Overview, and earthquake and tectonic studies.

Their recent publications illustrate their involvement in contemporary scientific discourse. Notable papers include:

  • Taphonomy of marine vertebrates of the Pisco Formation (Miocene, Peru): Insights into the origin of an outstanding Fossil-Lagerstätte, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Mineralogical and geochemical characterization of fossil bones from a Miocene marine Konservat-Lagerstätte, 2020, Journal of South American Earth Sciences
  • A heavyweight early whale pushes the boundaries of vertebrate morphology, 2023, Nature
  • A new small, mesorostrine inioid (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Delphinida) from four upper Miocene localities in the Pisco Basin, Peru, 2020, Papers in Palaeontology
  • Towards deciphering the Cenozoic evolution of the East Pisco Basin (southern Peru), 2022, Journal of Maps

Claudio Di Celma frequently collaborates with several researchers in their field. Regular co-authors include Giovanni Bianucci, Giulia Bosio, Alberto Collareta, Mario Urbina, and Elisa Malinverno.

Their work has been published in recurring venues such as the Journal of Maps, Journal of South American Earth Sciences, Marine and Petroleum Geology, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen, and Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • Depositional architecture and sequence stratigraphy of the Karoo basin floor to shelf edge succession, Laingsburg depocentre, South Africa

    S.S. Flint;D.M. Hodgson;A.R. Sprague;R.L. Brunt

  • Sequence response to syndepositional regional uplift: insights from high-resolution sequence stratigraphy of late Early Pleistocene strata, Periadriatic Basin, central Italy

    Gino Cantalamessa;Claudio Nicola Di Celma

  • Sedimentary features of tsunami backwash deposits in a shallow marine Miocene setting, Mejillones Peninsula, northern Chile

    Gino Cantalamessa;Claudio Nicola Di Celma

  • Spatial and Temporal Evolution of a Permian Submarine Slope Channel–Levee System, Karoo Basin, South Africa

    Claudio N. Di Celma;Rufus L. Brunt;David M. Hodgson;Stephen S. Flint

  • Earliest Mysticete from the Late Eocene of Peru Sheds New Light on the Origin of Baleen Whales

    Olivier Lambert;Manuel Martínez-Cáceres;Giovanni Bianucci;Claudio Di Celma

  • Sequence stratigraphy of the Punta Ballena Member of the Jama Formation (Early Pleistocene, Ecuador): insights from integrated sedimentologic, taphonomic and paleoecologic analysis of molluscan shell concentrations.

    Gino Cantalamessa;Claudio Nicola Di Celma;Luca Ragaini

  • Confined to unconfined: Anatomy of a base of slope succession, Karoo Basin, South Africa

    Rufus L. Brunt;David M. Hodgson;Stephen S. Flint;Jamie K. Pringle

  • Distribution of fossil marine vertebrates in Cerro Colorado, the type locality of the giant raptorial sperm whale Livyatan melvillei (Miocene, Pisco Formation, Peru)

    Giovanni Bianucci;Claudio Di Celma;Walter Landini;Klaas Post

  • SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY AND PALEONTOLOGY OF THE UPPER MIOCENE PISCO FORMATION ALONG THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE LOWER ICA VALLEY (ICA DESERT, PERU)

    Claudio Di Celma;Elisa Malinverno;Giulia Bosio;Alberto Collareta

  • Did the giant extinct shark Carcharocles megalodon target small prey? Bite marks on marine mammal remains from the late Miocene of Peru

    Alberto Collareta;Olivier Lambert;Walter Landini;Claudio Di Celma

  • Basin physiography and tectonic influence on sequence architecture and stacking pattern: Pleistocene succession of the Canoa Basin (central Ecuador)

    Claudio Di Celma;Luca Ragaini;Gino Cantalamessa;Walter Landini

  • Origin and chronology of Pleistocene marine terraces of Isla de la Plata and of flat, gently dipping surfaces of the southern coast of Cabo San Lorenzo (Manabı̀, Ecuador)

    Gino Cantalamessa;Claudio Nicola Di Celma

  • The dolomite nodules enclosing fossil marine vertebrates in the East Pisco Basin, Peru: Field and petrographic insights into the Lagerstätte formation

    Karen Gariboldi;Anna Gioncada;Giulia Bosio;Elisa Malinverno

  • Piscivory in a Miocene Cetotheriidae of Peru: first record of fossilized stomach content for an extinct baleen-bearing whale.

    Alberto Collareta;Walter Landini;Olivier Lambert;Klaas Post

  • Inside baleen: Exceptional microstructure preservation in a late Miocene whale skeleton from Peru

    Anna Gioncada;Alberto Collareta;Karen Gariboldi;Olivier Lambert

  • Fossil marine vertebrates of Cerro Los Quesos: Distribution of cetaceans, seals, crocodiles, seabirds, sharks, and bony fish in a late Miocene locality of the Pisco Basin, Peru

    Giovanni Bianucci;Claudio Di Celma;Alberto Collareta;Walter Landini

  • An Amphibious Whale from the Middle Eocene of Peru Reveals Early South Pacific Dispersal of Quadrupedal Cetaceans.

    Olivier Lambert;Giovanni Bianucci;Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi;Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi;Claudio Di Celma

  • Sedimentology and high-frequency sequence stratigraphy of a forearc extensional basin: The Miocene Caleta Herradura Formation, Mejillones Peninsula, northern Chile

    Claudio Nicola Di Celma;Gino Cantalamessa

  • Taphonomy and palaeoecology of the lower Miocene marine vertebrate assemblage of Ullujaya (Chilcatay Formation, East Pisco Basin, southern Peru)

    Giovanni Bianucci;Alberto Collareta;Giulia Bosio;Walter Landini

  • The late Miocene elasmobranch assemblage from Cerro Colorado (Pisco Formation, Peru)

    Walter Landini;Alì Altamirano-Sierra;Alberto Collareta;Claudio Di Celma

  • Sedimentologic and diagenetic controls on pore-network characteristics of Oligocene–Miocene ramp carbonates (Majella Mountain, central Italy)

    Andrea Rustichelli;Emanuele Tondi;Fabrizio Agosta;Claudio Di Celma

  • Driving a channel through a levee when the levee is high: An outcrop example of submarine down-dip entrenchment

    Rufus L. Brunt;Claudio N. Di Celma;David M. Hodgson;Stephen S. Flint

  • Facies analysis, stratigraphy and marine vertebrate assemblage of the lower Miocene Chilcatay Formation at Ullujaya (Pisco basin, Peru)

    C. Di Celma;E. Malinverno;A. Collareta;G. Bosio

Frequent Co-Authors

Giovanni Bianucci
Giovanni Bianucci University of Pisa
Mario Urbina
Mario Urbina National University of San Marcos
Emanuele Tondi
Emanuele Tondi University of Camerino
Anna Gioncada
Anna Gioncada University of Pisa
Christian de Muizon
Christian de Muizon French National Museum of Natural History
Igor M. Villa
Igor M. Villa University of Milano-Bicocca
Fabrizio Agosta
Fabrizio Agosta University of Basilicata
Stefano Mazzoli
Stefano Mazzoli University of Camerino
William D. McCaffrey
William D. McCaffrey University of Leeds
Giancarlo Molli
Giancarlo Molli University of Pisa

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